ARTIST STATEMENT

“I am a bouquet of wild flowers, blending scents of various natures.”

As an artist who strives to achieve and express both a scientific and a spiritual journey I use a scientific alphabet with a semiotic vocabulary as devices to express the journey through organic an inorganic spiritual energy. Scientific advancement is expressed through the use of systems of representation bound to science, religion and art, which are in tune with a post modernism context. Such visual language is used to satisfy an internal need to express a system of ideas and universal beliefs.

Beneath the chaotic illusion of outer space, there is a fragmented structure, sheltered under sheets of masses of energy, prescribing an idealistic place. Visually challenging, perhaps confronting, segmenting the spine of many journeys, through the mapping of a macrocosmic existence. In other paintings there is a reflective question about, where is home? Here? There? Nowhere? An illusion of a lasting place is then created in the midst of waves of etherised energy, suggesting transitions of dislocated journeys; lasting, peaceful places, surrounding invisible worlds, appearing, disappearing in an evolving cosmos. When I paint I develop and create an internal voice within the painting, I confront a pool of opposites of transient images such as past versus future, beginning versus end, expansion versus contraction, atheism versus religion, positive versus negative, material versus spiritual.

A regeneration of recorded memories, travelling as the echo of our fragile world is confronted by feelings and emotions. Then, as the work of art progresses, forms start emerging, some are born and die, masses of energy are observed. Colours, forms, shapes and volumes start appearing.

Across the silent paintings, various cycles of life are expose in a blind dialogue, perhaps an invisible mirror of micro and macrocosmic life. Dark and light energy dances over the detailed surface, suggesting new layers of meanings. I hope to have opened some veils or revealed a doorway, (even though we are all unsure of what’s there). 

BIOGRAPHY

Geraldes was born on May 15, 1957 of Portuguese parents in a small village of Beira Baixa in Portugal. His father secured employment in what was then the Portuguese colony of Angola in Western Africa and, at the age of four, he journeyed with his mother, older brother and younger sister to join him in Quissakel-Quanza Norte, a small countryside mining town 300 kilometers from the capital, Luanda.

He migrated to Australia in 1985. He became an Australian citizen in 1987 and has taught art and design at Footscray Institute of TAFE from 1988 to 1990 and at RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) from 1991 to 1995. From 1995, he was a lecturer at the Central Gippsland Institute Art Department.

He now paints full-time and regularly travels between Europe and Australia.

COLLECTIONS

  • City Museum of Guarda, Portugal

  • Antonio Perez Museum/Foundation, Cuenca, Spain

  • Quinta do Sirol Art collection (120 original paintings), Leiria , Portugal

  • Setúbal Museum, Portugal

  • Museum of Angra do Heroísmo, Terceira Island, Portugal

  • National Parliament, Canberra, Australia

  • National Museum of Modern Art, Haifa, Israel

  • National Museum of Modern Art, Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal

  • Museum of Modern Art, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal

  • Francisco Tavares Proença Júnior Museum, Castelo Branco, Portugal

  • National Museum of Modern Art, Luanda, Angola

  • Portuguese Museum, Sydney, Australia

  • Caixa Geral de Depósitos. Culturgest. Lisbon, Portugal

  • Regional Secretariat of the Autonomous Region of Madeira, Madeira, Portugal

  • Ministry of Justice, (4m x 6m) mural with greetings in the courtroom of the Mondim de Basto Court, Portugal

  • City of Petersham, street ceramic mural (3m x 30m), Sydney, Australia

  • Covilhã City Council, Portugal

  • City of Marrickville, NSW, Australia

  • Vila Sol, (4m high sculpture) Algarve, Portugal

EXHIBITIONS

  • 2025 - CARMINA, Angra do Heroísmo Museum, Terceira Island, Portugal

  • 2024 - Setubal Museum. Q11

  • 2023 - Angra do Heroísmo Museum, Terceira Island, Portugal

  • 2017 - Macedo de Cavaleiros Cultural Center, Portugal

  • 2018 - Antonio Perez Museum/Foundation, Cuenca, Spain

  • 2016 - City Museum of Guarda, Portugal
              - Malangatana Valente Gallery, ISPA Lisbon, Portugal

  • 2015 - BSG Brunswick Street Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

  • 2014 - Moagem Cultural Center, Fundão, Portugal

  • 2013 - Red Square Art Gallery, Singapore

  • 2012 - Gallery of the Consulate General of Portugal in Sydney, Australia

  • 2011 - Sale Regional Art Gallery/Museum

  • 2008 - Miguel Bombarda Gallery, Dario Ramos, Porto

  • 2007 - Na Wei International Gallery, Singapore

  • 2006 - Caulfld Art Center, Melbourne Australia

  • 2005 - Arqué Art Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal

  • 2004 - Galeria S. Mamede, Col. Lisboa, Portugal
               - Tasmania Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart Collection, Australia

  • 2003 - Monash University, Caulfield Gallery, Australia
              - Galeria S. Mamede, Lisbon, Portugal
              - Switchback Gallery, Monash University,  Gippsland, Australia

  • 2002 - New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale Collection, Australia
              - Arena Art Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands
              - Gabriel Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

  • 2001 - Lídia Cruz Gallery, Leiria, Portugal
               - Galeria Dário Ramos, Porto, Portugal
              - George Adams Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
               - Canberra Museum & Art Gallery, Canberra Collection, Australia
               - Sale Regional Gallery, Sale, Australia

  • 2000 - Madeira Brand 2000, Art Fair, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal
               - Latrobe Regional Gallery Morwell, Australia
        - Domingos Sequeira Biennial, Bairro Alto Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
               - Haifa Museum of Modern Art, coll. Haifa, Israel
               - Monash University, Caulfield, coll. Australia

  • 1999 - Pottoff Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
               - Domus Varius, Art Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal

  • 1998 - Sale Regional Gallery, Sale, Australia

  • 1997 - Adelaide Arts Festival, Australia
               - Pottoff Art Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal

  • 1996 - Glen Eira Arts Complex, Melbourne, Australia

  • 1995 - Gabriel Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
               -  Steps Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
               - Portuguese Museum, Sydney, Australia

  • 1994 - Galeria S. Francisco, Lisbon, Portugal
               - Alliance Française, Melbourne, Australia
               - Gabriel Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

  • 1993 - Galeria S. Francisco, Lisbon, Portugal
               - Roar Studios, Melbourne, Australia
               - Del Bello Art Gallery, col. Toronto, Canada
               - Metro Toronto Convention Centre, col. Canada
               - Museum of Catalonia, collection Barcelona, Spain

  • 1992 - ADOGI Taller Galeria Fort, col. Barcelona, Spain
               - Gretz Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
               - Galeria S. Francisco, Lisbon, Portugal
               - Nations Salon in Paris, France

  • 1991 - Artist Space, Melbourne, Australia
               - Gretz Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

  • 1990 - Gabriel Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
              - Alliance Francaise, Sydney, Australia

  • 1989 - Gabriel Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

  • 1988 - International Art Fair Sydney, Australia

  • 1987 - Gabriel Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
             - CAE, Moore Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

  • 1986 - Gabriel Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
               - Doncaster Art Gallery, Doncaster, Australia

  • 1985 - Ana Isabel Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal

  • 1983 - SNBA - National Society of Fine Arts, Lisbon, Portugal

  • 1980 - Francisco Tavares Proença Júnior Museum, Portugal